Please give full contact details for Kevin who knows your bank account details. I cannot give a huge amount but would like to contribute.
Pamela On twitter @Pamela_McLean Often using #dadamac Blogging at http://dadamac.net/blog/pamela On 28 January 2015 at 07:50, P2P Foundation mailing list < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear P2P friends, > > It has been a long time that I needed to do such an appeal, but a > combination of unforeseen circumstances means I need to ask for assistance. > > Administrative changes in 2 of the foundations that used to support us, > means that 2015 will be rather problematic. I have a good agenda of > lectures, but these were never enough to pay the bills. > > The problem is rather acute right now. I am leaving for a 4 day belgian > trip with about 50 Euro on my picket,but more seriously , I am leaving to > Wisconsin on February 8 for 3 weeks without any short-term prospect of > getting paid and thus of taking any money with me there. The necessity to > replace a pair of broken glasses also looms large <g>. > > If you are on this mailing list, you know my work, you know that I have > consistently worked on expanding and catalysing p2p and commons practices, > as well as their understanding. If you find this work important and > appreciate it, now is a good time to show solidarity and to assist me in > continuing it. This gives you a good record of my activities in the context > of the P2P Foundation, see part 1 of > http://p2pfoundation.net/What_the_P2P_Foundation_Did_in_2014 > > There are two things you can do. > > One is the emergency funding. There is no easy way to do this as my Paypal > account has been blocked for a number of years, so I can only give my > Belgian account at the Belfius bank, BE91 0682 2166 9376 > > Kevin in cc has the full details if you want to transfer money this way. I > am looking for minimally EUR 2,000 but if possible, I am aiming for 6,000 > so that I have a buffer. I am looking for gifts, but if you can give a > loan, that is fine. I must be honest however, in that, always living with > moderate and usually insufficient means, I have a bad record now of > repaying loans on time. > > I am also launching at the same time a longer term solution, i.e. through > gratipay. The aim of gratipay is to create a minimum basic income that will > allow me to brave the insecurity and irregularity of the income flow. > Gratipay allows you to declare a regular support, per week or per month. My > aim there is to achieve $300 per week, giving me a basic income of $1,200 > per month > > My gratipay URL is here: https://gratipay.com/mbauwens/ > > So if you are motivated to assist me with my work for the P2P Foundation, > and in particular with the more short-term emergency, please do the > following: > > * send a preferable round sum of support to my belgian account, say EUR > 100 or EUR 250 > > * declare any small regular sum that you willing to give, through my > gratipay account, > > I needed to launch this fast and without much preparation due to the > emergency, thanks for your understanding. > > Michel Bauwens > > -- > Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: > http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan > > P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net > > <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: > http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens > > #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ > > _______________________________________________ > P2P Foundation - Mailing list > http://www.p2pfoundation.net > https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation > >
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